Alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of attempting to assassinate the president and 16 related crimes. Ortega-Hernandez, 21, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Washington. After one of his lawyers entered the pleas for him, Ortega-Hernandez was escorted back to jail, where he is being held without bond pending a trial. Read full article > >

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A Manassas area woman suspected of carrying out a string of brazen carjackings and bank robberies in Northern Virginia and Maryland over the past two weeks was charged in Virginia federal court Thursday. Stephanie Lynn Schwab, 26, was charged with a single count of felony bank robbery, but officials said additional counts will probably be filed. The mother of two could enter a plea at a hearing Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Read full article > >

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Two Penn State University officials appeared Monday in a Harrisburg, Pa., district court to be charged with lying to a grand jury investigating allegations that former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused children and failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child. Bail for Tim Curley, the school’s athletic director, and Gary Schulta, senior vice president for business and finance, was set at $75,000. They were not required to enter pleas and surrendered their passports. Curley, 57, has taken a leave of absence from the school and Schultz, 62, has returned to retirement. Read full article > >

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A Northern Virginia man is filing a discrimination lawsuit against one of the nation’s most secretive intelligence agencies, claiming it revoked his security clearance because his wife attended an Islamic school and works for a Muslim nonprofit group. Mahmoud M. Hegab, hired in 2010 as a budget analyst for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency , sued in U.S. District Court in Alexandria last month and asked the agency to reverse its decision to revoke his clearance and place him on unpaid leave. Read full article > >

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Worker suing intelligence agency claims anti-Muslim bias

A federal judge Wednesday granted small wins to AT&T and T-Mobile in the first hearing of the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the companies’ $39 billion mega-wireless merger. Judge Ellen Huvelle , of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, set a Feb. 13 trial date — earlier than Justice requested — and declined for now rival Sprint Nextel’s request to join the suit, which would have complicated the proceedings. Read full article > >

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A federal judge Wednesday granted small wins to AT&T and T-Mobile in the first hearing of the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the companies’ $39 billion mega-wireless merger. Judge Ellen Huvelle , of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, set a Feb. 13 trial date — earlier than Justice requested — and declined for now rival Sprint Nextel’s request to join the suit, which would have complicated the proceedings. Read full article > >

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An assistant principal at a Fauquier County elementary school was arrested Wednesday and charged with possessing and distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors said. Joshua Myers, 29, who works at Greenville Elementary School in Nokesville, chatted online with an undercover officer and gave the officer a password to folders on his computer that contained child pornography, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The officer used the password to download seven videos, including some that show children engaged in sexual contact with adults and other children, court papers say. Read full article > >

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Fauquier assistant principal arrested on child pornography charges

Former Prince George’s county executive Jack B. Johnson admitted in federal court Tuesday that he took more than $400,000 in bribes, agreeing to a plea deal that showed he began shaking down developers almost from his first days in office. Johnson’s plea in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt came on a day when federal prosecutors announced that the county’s former housing director and two developers had pleaded guilty in secret proceedings as part of a sweeping corruption investigation that remains active. Those cases show that the probe was in high gear as early as 2006, the same year Johnson sailed to a second term. Read full article > >

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Jack B. Johnson, the former Prince George’s County executive who is the central figure in a sweeping public corruption case , is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing. The hearing is scheduled for noon at U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office. Such proceedings typically mean prosecutors and the defendant have reached a deal to plead guilty. But even when a defendant has signed a plea deal, it is not official until he pleads guilty before a judge. Read full article > >

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A former aide to Bernard Madoff, who faces charges related to Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court for a pre-trial hearing Friday.

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When U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the mandate to purchase health insurance in the new law was unconstitutional, many people began looking to the Supreme Court for a final determination.

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A district court hearing will be held in Texas on Monday to determine whether the death penalty is unconstitutional due to the risk of wrongful convictions. It will be the first time in the state’s history that a court will examine the issue of…

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Days before BP Exploration Alaska’s (BPXA) probation was due to end, a federal probation officer petitioned a US District Court judge to revoke the company’s probation over a 46,000 gallon oil spill that occurred in November 2009. The probation officer, Mary Frances Barnes, said in court documents filed Wednesday that the November 29, 2009, spill at BPXA’s Lisburne facility amounted to “criminal negligence” read more

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The Justice Department says it may sue BP for damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a filing made Monday night with the U.S. District Court in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The US Justice Department will appeal after a US district court ruled against Obama’s stem cell research plans.

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